{"id":107772,"date":"2019-06-04T19:59:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T12:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-property-deals-jump-to-22-year-high-as-investors-spend-us43-8b-in-first-five-months-of-2019-but-outlook-cloudy\/"},"modified":"2019-06-04T21:05:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:05:50","slug":"hong-kong-property-deals-jump-to-22-year-high-as-investors-spend-us43-8b-in-first-five-months-of-2019-but-outlook-cloudy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kong-property-deals-jump-to-22-year-high-as-investors-spend-us43-8b-in-first-five-months-of-2019-but-outlook-cloudy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong property deals jump to 22-year high as investors spend US$43.8b in first five months of 2019, but outlook cloudy"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nProperty transactions in Hong Kong in the first five months of the year rose to the highest level since 1997, with buyers splashing out HK$343.7 billion (US$43.8 billion) on homes, car parks, shops and industrial and office units, data from the Land Registry showed on Tuesday.But Ricacorp Properties believes an escalation in the US-China trade war, which saw US President Donald Trump raise tariffs on US$200 billion worth of Chinese goods from 10 per cent to 25 per cent on May 10 and tit-for-tat\u2026
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
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